A thread on Reddit has screenshots suggesting the Assassin's Creed Brotherhood soundtrack being distributed to those who have preordered the digital deluxe edition of the stealth/action sequel was actually downloaded from a ripped version of the soundtrack being illicitly distributed via torrent. We asked Ubisoft whether this is the case, and if so, why, but have not received a reply. Thanks nin via Kotaku, where they note the similarities between this allegation and an incident a few years ago when the copy of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 distributed via Direct2Drive used a pirate no-CD crack.

nin wrote on Mar 15, 2011, 22:02:That might have been my link, I think. Reading there and IO9 is downright painful these days. It's like they designed it for an ipad, and fuck everyone else.

Um no. The new site design actually works **WORSE** on iOS devices. You can not scroll the right part where the list of topics is on a touch screen. Hell you can not scroll it if you have a mouse that has no wheel.

Probably the ubi guy who had responsibility to get the digital deluxe edition setup, couldn't find the CD, and didn't want to embarrass himself by asking his boss, so he grabbed it from the nearest handy source, which happened to be teh intarwebs.